Purdue chemist Christopher Uyeda is currently tackling a complex challenge in medical chemistry, one that could allow for faster manufacturing of expensive medications. Uyeda’s work was recently ...

Synthetic chemists have long used carbenes to create cyclopropyl groups and to strategically insert carbon into certain bonds. But these highly reactive intermediates haven’t been available in the ...

An artist’s rendition of the new catalytic method for asymmetric fragmentation of cyclopropanes. (Credit: YAP Co., Ltd.) An organic catalyst offers chemists precise control over a vital step in ...

A German research team has investigated the use of zeotropic fluid mixtures as the working fluid in high-temperature heat pumps (HTHP). Zeotropic mixtures consist of two or more fluids with varying ...

Frankincense, also called olibanum, is a resin obtained from trees in the genus Boswellia that grow in Africa and Asia. One of the first aromatic materials used by humans, it dates to the late fourth ...

Cyclopropanes are a common motif in medicinal chemistry. Three-carbon rings show up in drug structures for conditions including asthma, psoriasis, and COVID-19. But despite its utility, cyclopropane ...

Chemical structures called cyclopropanes can increase the potency of many drugs, but traditional methods to create this structure require highly reactive -- potentially explosive -- ingredients. Now, ...

Despite being some of the most versatile building blocks in organic chemistry, compounds called carbenes can be too hot to handle. Despite being some of the most versatile building blocks in organic ...

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